# Elastic 6.3 Field mapping of "IPORHOST"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-6-3-field-mapping-of-iporhost/139304>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 10, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-6-3-field-mapping-of-iporhost/139304 "2018-07-10T09:03:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcusCaepio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcuscaepio/32/32458_2.png) [@MarcusCaepio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcusCaepio)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-6-3-field-mapping-of-iporhost/139304/1 "2018-07-10T09:03:10Z")

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Hi all,  
how do I have to do the field mapping in my index template to map the logstash output, which is grokked as "IPORHOST" ? Mapping as IP drops all results with a hostname ('xyz' is not an IP string literal.). So I need some kind of "IP or text" mapping. Is this possible??

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-6-3-field-mapping-of-iporhost/139304/2 "2018-07-10T09:17:46Z")

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It's easier to help if you don't create multiple topics on the same question. Let's keep things going here [Keywords for IP fields?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keywords-for-ip-fields/139144) 🙂

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**Author:** ![MarcusCaepio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcuscaepio/32/32458_2.png) [@MarcusCaepio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcusCaepio)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-6-3-field-mapping-of-iporhost/139304/3 "2018-07-10T09:43:48Z")

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Imho that are 2 different questions but anyway, I solved this question by splitting the "IPORHOST" pattern into e.g. (?:%{IP:src\_ip}|%{HOSTNAME:src\_hostname})

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-6-3-field-mapping-of-iporhost/139304/4 "2018-08-07T09:43:57Z")

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